NASHVILLE – The third episode of the Road to New Orleans features a challenging word on ways messengers can use their time at the SBC Annual Meeting for more than business as usual. The episode dropped on Tuesday (Feb. 14).

Jamie Dew, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary president, joined Jonathan Howe for the video.

Dew said Southern Baptists will have time to be tourists while they’re in the Big Easy, but he encouraged them to do more.

“Through our partnership with the NAMB (North American Mission Board) Center, we’re going to have a number of tours. This’ll be the opportunity for you to see not only the charms of the city but the challenges of the city,” he said.

“It will be an opportunity to see the need for the gospel here.”

The Road to New Orleans is a weekly video series with Howe, SBC Executive Committee vice president for communications, that highlights different aspects of the upcoming annual meeting and the host city.

Dew says the need for Southern Baptists to be missionaries to New Orleans is great.

“It’s kind of like if you went to Europe or China or something like that. You’re not going to encounter a ton of Christians,” he said.

The video is available at SBCAnnualMeeting.net.

The 2023 SBC Annual Meeting is set for June 11-14 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.

(EDITOR’S NOTE – This article was written by a Baptist Press staff member.)